The Art of Elocution, Or, Logical and Musical Reading and Declamation: With an Appendix, Containing a Copious Practice in Oratorical, Poetical, and Dramatic Reading and Recitation ; the Whole Forming a Complete Speaker, Well Adapted to Private Pupils, Classes, and the Use of Schools |
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... ADRASTUS on a couch , asleep . Enter IoN , with a knife . Ion . Why do I creep thus stealthily along With trembling steps ? Am I not arm'd by Heaven , To execute its mandate on a king Whom it hath doom'd ? And shall I falter now 328 ...
... ADRASTUS on a couch , asleep . Enter IoN , with a knife . Ion . Why do I creep thus stealthily along With trembling steps ? Am I not arm'd by Heaven , To execute its mandate on a king Whom it hath doom'd ? And shall I falter now 328 ...
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... Adrastus ! Collect thy spirits and be strong to die ! Adras . Who dares disturb my rest ? Guards ! Soldiers ! Recreants ! Where tarry ye ? Why smite ye not to earth This bold intruder ? Ha ! no weapon here ! - What wouldst thou with me ...
... Adrastus ! Collect thy spirits and be strong to die ! Adras . Who dares disturb my rest ? Guards ! Soldiers ! Recreants ! Where tarry ye ? Why smite ye not to earth This bold intruder ? Ha ! no weapon here ! - What wouldst thou with me ...
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... [ Adrastus kneels . ] Ion . - Avert thy face ! Adras . - No ; let me meet thy gaze ; For breathing pity lights thy features up Into more awful likeness of a form Which once shone on me ; -and which now my sense Shapes palpable - in habit ...
... [ Adrastus kneels . ] Ion . - Avert thy face ! Adras . - No ; let me meet thy gaze ; For breathing pity lights thy features up Into more awful likeness of a form Which once shone on me ; -and which now my sense Shapes palpable - in habit ...
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... ADRAStus , who is kneel- ing , and gazes steadfastly upon him . The voice of MEDON is heard without , calling " Ion ! Ion ! ” — ION drops his arm . ] Adras . - Be quick , or thou art lost ! Medon . - Ion , forbear ! Behold thy son , ...
... ADRAStus , who is kneel- ing , and gazes steadfastly upon him . The voice of MEDON is heard without , calling " Ion ! Ion ! ” — ION drops his arm . ] Adras . - Be quick , or thou art lost ! Medon . - Ion , forbear ! Behold thy son , ...
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accelerando accented Adrastus antithesis arms beauty blood breath brow Brutus burst Cæsar called Cassius cataphracts character Christian compound inflections dark death deep delivery diphthongal doth ducats earth Elocution emphasis of force emphasis of sense EXAMPLES exercise expression eyes falling inflection feeling gesture give Godfrey of Bouillon grace hand Harfleur hath heart heaven high pitch honor hope human voice Intonation king language legato light live Lochinvar Lord maestoso marked MEDON melody mercy middle pitch mind nature Netherby never night o'er parenthesis passage passion pause phatic pity presto pronominal phrase prose prosodial prosodians reading rest rhythm rising inflection Roche rule sentence Shaks Shylock sight solemn soul sound speak speaker speech spirit staccato style sweet swell syllables tears thee thought tion tone tonic utterance Venice verse waves weep word